I think this is a good trend. I’ve always believed that ARRL offers plenty of value but members simply don’t know about it. I get asked by people, why are they paying $49 for a Magazine subscription and little else. Maybe we can use this opportunity to describe some of the inner workings of our member benefits. For example - TIS. It’s a really great benefit that many didn’t even know existed. I get copies of all correspondence which is great. Perhaps Zack or someone else could do a write up about it and encourage members to use the benefit. This would even be great for On The Air but also good as a refresher in QST. This is useful, on the ground, practical info and not just a 30,000 foot view that many could care less about. 73 Ria N2RJ On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 12:14 PM midwesthitech <midwesthitech@gmail.com> wrote:
Great point Bud! I enjoy diversity in QST Editorials.
Lynn Nelson - W0ND ARRL Dakota Division Vice Director
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-------- Original message -------- From: W2RU - ARRL <W2RU@arrl.org> Date: 2/11/20 8:38 AM (GMT-07:00) To: arrl-odv <arrl-odv@arrl.org> Cc: N1VXY <N1VXY@arrl.org> Subject: [arrl-odv:29668] Fwd: [ODjr] QST editorials
Here’s a little survey of my QST collection that I did not quite a year ago, when I was conversing with some others about “It Seems to Us”:
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*From: *W2RU *Subject: **Re: QST editorials* *Date: *April 30, 2019 at 8:15:16 PM EDT
My QSTs are still pretty much unsequenced in my bookshelves because most of them came down here to VA from dry storage just a few months ago. That’s not so bad for this exercise, since it facilitates random sampling. Examples (in the order I pulled them off the shelves):
1975 December (W4KFC, 1st VP) 1975 November (Don Waters — who I believe was the League’s PR guy at the time) 1969 April (Unsigned — perhaps Huntoon?) 1954 January (Unsigned) 2003 January (Ward Silver, N0AX, guest editorial) 1990 September (K1ZZ, EVP) 1936 April (K. B. Warner, Secretary, chronicling the deaths of Charles Stewart and Hiram Percy Maxim) 1926 January (K. B. Warner, Secretary) 1988 March (K1ZZ, EVP) 1948 August (split between “B.G” — probably Byron Goodman, Ass’t. Technical Editor — and initials I believe are Warner’s, as Secretary) 2006 October (K1ZZ, CEO) 1956 June (Unsigned, during a period when A. L. Budlong, W1BUD, was Secretary & General Manager, and Goodwin L. Dosland, W0TSN, was President)
So you can prove just about *anybody* wrote the QST editorials over the years. Perhaps more importantly, you could make the point that the CEO/EVP/GM has not historically had a monopoly on the editorial page, and that "really good” editorials can and should come from multiple writers.
Bud, W2RU
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